Susan Sontag Quotes

540 quotes · Essayist, Critic, Activist

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Susan Sontag Quotes

All Philosophical Creative Angry Thoughtful Wise 540 quotes · page 21 of 45

Susan Sontag

Essayist, Critic, Activist

Thoughtful

“Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.”

Alive Healthy Becoming

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Susan Sontag

Essayist, Critic, Activist

Love

“'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.”

World Style Vision

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Compassionate

“Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.”

Needs Action

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Nostalgic

“But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures”

Nostalgic

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Philosophical

“Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.”

Universal Surrealism Bourgeois

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Thoughtful

“Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.”

Criticism Failure Lapses

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Funny

“So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.”

Beautiful Successful Photography

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Creative

“A good listener: a physical presence that is warm, alert, intelligent - more important than any words.”

Important Intelligent Listening

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Lonely

“I feel inauthentic at a party. ... Going to a party is a 'low' activity - the authentic self is compromised, fragmented - one plays 'roles.' One isn't fully present, beyond role-playing. One doesn't (can't) tell the full truth, which means one is lying, even if one doesn't literally tell lies.”

Lying Party Truth

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Thoughtful

“I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.”

Dream Follow Your Dreams

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Philosophical

“Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease.”

Ignorance States Disease

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Angry

“Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.”

People Mad This Society

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